#i still can since there are additional pages ig ill do that later this week mayb

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Scan credit. More on Voltron history: one of the concept designs Golion actually had manes!

Description for the Golion concept art:

アニメーション制作スタッフ側で描かれた、ゴライオンのデザイン案。黒獅子、青獅子、黄獅子にたてがみが描かれていることがわかる。 

A draft of Golion’s concept design drawn by the animation staff. Note that Black Lion, Blue Lion, and Yellow Lion originally had manes.

Description for the lions:

村上氏によるメカライオンのデザイン。先生の「未来ロボ　ダルタニアス」のミライオン・べラリオスとの差別化もあり、５体ともたてがみのない若獅子で統一されていた。

Murakami’s mechalion designs. In order to differentiate from his design of Beralius from Mirai Robo Daltanious, the mechalions were designed after younger lions without manes.

Interesting to note about Daltanious is that it was apparently the “lion” anime that WEP originally wanted from Toei.

Translation troubles ended up with Toei sending Golion by accident ultimately ending in WEP favouring Golion instead. Yes, Voltron was quite literally a mistake.

However, the pilot that WEP used to pitch Voltron to TV stations had Daltanious in it instead of Albegas.